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...play in the '81 Championship Series against the Rockets when he threw up a shot, ran to grab the rebound along the baseline, then shot the ball lefty to avoid hitting the backboard as he fell out of bounds--all in one motion. "Greatest play I ever saw," Red Auerbach said...
...show of paintings by the English artist Leon Kossoff, which opened last ( week at the Robert Miller Gallery in New York City, ought to provoke some reflection. Kossoff, 61, is hardly known in America. He is one of the two English tortoises (the other being Frank Auerbach) who are crossing the finish line just when most of the short-winded art hyped in the 1980s has gone dead on its feet. Both are, so to speak, redemptive artists, sustaining and enlarging a tradition of the expressive human figure that seems largely to have been colonized by ham-fisted ephemerids. When...
Since September the venture has acquired some new features and a few additions to the "Board of Mavens" (Yiddish for self-appointed experts). The panel now includes cellist Yo-Yo Ma '76, violinist Itzhak Perlman, the Boston Celtics' Red Auerbach, the owner of Boston's kosher Milk Street Cafe, and Sheldon Cohen of Out of Town News...
...most overt example of statusgrubbing did not occur in baseball but in basketball. Consider the year that both Wilt Chamberlain and Bill Russell were getting their contracts renewed. A few days after Red Auerbach signed Russell to the tune of $100,000, Chamberlain demanded $100,001. The rivalry that the two big men had on the court spilled off the court...
...responses to fauvism, or the work of the vorticists around 1914 (Wyndham Lewis, William Roberts, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska), or that of individuals like Stanley Spencer, David Bomberg, Jacob Epstein and Paul Nash, and so on through to the post-'60s paintings of men like Lucian Freud, Leon Kossoff, Frank Auerbach, R.B. Kitaj and Howard Hodgkin -- now strike us as not just a footnote to, but an essential part of, the visual culture of the past 80 years: neither "provincial" nor "minor," but singular and grand? What muffled the recognition of British art? Partly, it must be admitted, the English themselves...